Karolina Milobar – the first licensed female doctor and the first female author on the pages of Liječnički vjesnik
Autori:
Stella Fatović-Ferenčić, Željko Krznarić
Sažetak
Summary
The first licensed doctor in our area with a private practice opened in 1906 in Zagreb, in Berislavićeva Street 3, was German Karolina Milobar, née Maier. She is also the first female author to publish her experiences from medical practice on the pages of Liječnički vjesnik. Thanks to the content of six published articles that appeared in the period 1907 – 1931, we analyzed her work in the field of gastroenterology. We argued that with her texts, Karolina Milobar opened up a new and then current topic, especially through the description and problematization of the diagnosis of diseases of the digestive organs, and by comparing the methods used in foreign
clinics with those from her own practice. It is about the earliest descriptions of the analysis of stomach contents, the use of a duodenal probe and a rectoscope, about a subject that makes a departure from the one that was present at that time on the pages of Liječnički vjesnik and refers primarily to the scope of surgical procedures. Furtheron she spent a good part of her specialization in gastroenterology at foreign clinics where prominent representatives of new directions in the development of medicine worked at that time. Therefore her direct reference to the results of those relevant centers contributes to the insight into the segment of transfer, adoption and modification of knowledge in the field of gastroenterology into the practice of our doctors.